[kinda OT] home network speed

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 09:47:10AM -0700, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > Wifi is great for being able to move a laptop around.  It totally sucks
> > for anything where you want reliable communications.  There are times
> > my network drops to 35KB/s (when I suspect a neighbour decides to use
> > the old crap 2.4GHz phone, given the problem always lasts about 1 to 10
> > minutes before going back to normal).
> 
> For that time period it could just as well be a microwave too.

My microwave doesn't do it.  My old phone (years ago) certainly did.
Pick up phone totally killed wifi.

Microwaves are supposed to be shielded.  Cordless phones are supposed
to send out 2.4ghz (if that's their band) signals.  Many older cheap
ones didn't seem to care about being good neighbours however.

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Len Sorensen
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